has removed from , announcing on Truth Social, “I have asked Vice President Vance to focus his complete and total attention on the Massive Corruption and Crime taking place in Democrat run Cities and States throughout the U.S.” Trump is currently saying that he doesn’t need to negotiate with Iran: “We don’t need a deal with Iran. Those days have long since passed. . . . We’ve got their money, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we’ve got their Strait!”

That part may be a bluff, although I have argued all along that an agreement with Iran is apt to be worse than worthless, so we may as well just end the war on our own terms once we decide that we won’t get anything further out of continuing to fight.

But there is also a basic principle of managing organizations here. Vance has made it clear since the election what he was always floating through surrogates: He opposes the administration’s Iran war policy, and has from the very start. Moreover, it is clear that his opposition is total and ideological, rather than practical and particular. That means that he always thought that a deal with Iran, any deal at any price, was preferable to war, any war under any conditions.

This is not an ideological posture likely to produce an agreement with terms favorable to the United States. But getting him out of Iran negotiations is also just good common sense for Trump, and for Vance as well. A good organization can tolerate, and sometimes even needs, voices around the table who dissent from a policy. And genuinely trustworthy subordinates can carry out policies they advised against. But once you publicly oppose a policy, you can’t very well be entrusted with carrying it out. That goes double in Vance’s case, as he is likely to be running for president soon on a platform of sharply criticizing Trump’s decision to go to war. And if Vance wants to get separation from that policy, it is also in his own best interests not to be further involved in being responsible for its success or failure. He’s free to stay on the outside, banking on it failing.